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THE AMERICAN-SC AN DIN AVI AN REVIEW 
Elsa Brandstrom 
some of them half-naked. Not a cover was to be had in the so-called 
hospital. The prisoners who were sent out to fetch water for the 
camps suffered so acutely from the severe cold that arms or legs 
often had to be amputated. And the cold within the houses was 
almost as intense as without: from icicles in the ceiling water kept 
dripping down on the sick. The dying and the well slept side by side. 
If a patient in his death struggle fell from the upper bunk, he would 
remain on the dirty floor till some one stumbled over the corpse and 
kicked it to one side. The physicians—that is to say the physicians 
among the prisoners, for the Russian doctors were hardly ever seen— 
